US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care on July 14 for "Anthraquinone-functionalized polymerization initiators and their use in the manufacture of ophthalmic lenses" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,854, issued on July 14, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Anthraquinone-functionalized polymerization initiators and their use in the manufacture of ophthalmic lenses" was invented by Michael F. Widman (Jacksonville, Fla.), Ghulam Maharvi (Jacksonville, Fla.), Shivkumar Mahadevan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Azaam Alli (Jacksonville, Fla.), Alexander Guzman (Jacksonville, Fla.), Xin Wei (Irvine, Calif.) and Minghan Chen (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compounds that may function as functionalized polymerization initiators, for instance in the manufacture of ophthalmic l...